Many monasteries lost their properties during the 1950s, while several temples suffered damage in the 1960s and 1970s.

Much of the global population suffers from chronic pain. Here’s what we can learn from Buddhism about how to manage it.

A new dance production, presenting the life story of the legendary Buddhist scholar Kumarajiva (343-413), one of the greatest ...

The downfall of Shi Yongxin, the once-untouchable abbot of China’s Shaolin Temple, has thrown fresh light on the precarious ...

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) – A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday _ one of them to a life term _ in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was ...

Buddhist monks defended themselves with a coat hanger – and their own “stay calm” philosophy – when armed goons stormed their Brooklyn temple in a pathetic heist that netted them a measly few hundred ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Cambodia on Friday held a religious ...

While Trump did receive a Cambodian nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, the nomination came from the country's prime minister, Hun Manet. Yon Seng Yeath, a leading figure among Cambodian buddhist ...

A Buddhist monk who set up a hospice in Thailand for people with HIV/Aids has been arrested for alleged embezzlement of donations to the care home. Luang Phor Alongkot, 65, was arrested Tuesday at his ...

Thailand’s Sangha Council has reiterated its ban on monks acting as lottery fortune tellers, warning that the practice breaks religious discipline and the law. The reminder comes amid growing concern ...